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STREET IMPROVEMENTS.
After negotiations extending over more than two years,
the vestry were successful in carrying out the improvement
at the corner of Caxton-street and Great Chapel-street,
1,067 feet super, in Caxton-street, and 615 feet in Great
Chapel-street being added to the public way. The cost of
the land was £3,000 (raised by a loan), and of making up
the new footway and roadway £500, which, with an instalment
in repayment of the loan, was provided for in the
current rates.
An improvement in Greencoat-row and Cobourg-row
was secured by an arrangement with Messrs. Tyrrell Lewis
and Co. on behalf of the Army and Navy Co-operative and
Auxiliary Societies, whereby the Vestry consented to the
closing of St. Margaret's-passage in consideration of certain
land in Cobourg-row being surrendered to the public use.
A very desirable improvement at the north-east end of
Great Peter-street engaged the attention of the Vestry's
Works Committee, and although the matter had not been
brought to a completion at the close of the year, it may be
stated here that there is every likelihood of Great Peterstreet
being widened by the setting back of Messrs.
Burroughes and Watts' premises on the north side of the
street; and that St. Ann's-street will in connection therewith,
be widened. The improvement will be effected by the
exchange of certain land in St. Ann's-court and of other
land in St. Ann's-street, acquired for the purpose of the
exchange, and the cost is estimated to be £4,220, exclusive
of the works.
The Vestry were also occupied in the consideration of a
proposed roadway across the site of the late Artillery
brewery, so as to connect Victoria-street with Rochester